Costume jewelry just got a healthy dose of royalty thanks to QVC and The Smithsonian. Slated to launch this coming fall, the collection will include rings, bracelets, pins, brooches and earrings. It ...

Gemstones have always been the ultimate symbols of beauty, positivity, and all things nice. Throughout history, they have adorned royal crowns, majestic rings, necklaces, and other dazzling pieces of ...

If touring a museum packed with curios such as a two-headed baby chick didn’t freak me out, then jeweler Karen Bachmann’s sordid tales of the world’s cursed gemstones did. Both Bloody Mary Tudor and ...

Rather than scrutinizing body counts, the number of villages burned to the ground, or the gruesomeness of accumulated battle scars, they say an evil overlord can measure his true worth by the amount ...